Following the completion of his major novels, War and Peace and Anna Karenina , in 1880, Russian writer Leo Tolstoy experienced a spiritual crisis that led him to denounce the privileges of his social class and its attendant material wealth, and to embrace the simple rural life of the peasantry.
In the persecuted Doukhobor sect, who also rejected militarism and church ritual in favour of finding God, he saw a prime example of how it was possible to live his new-found pacifist.
Following the completion of his major novels, War and Peace and Anna Karenina , in 1880, Russian writer Leo Tolstoy experienced a spiritual crisis that led him to denounce the privileges of his social class and its attendant material wealth, and to embrace the simple rural life of the peasantry
